# Carlos Cruz

> Software engineer, who worked in scientific and research settings

## Blog
- [My first steps into MCP](https://www.carcruz.dev/blog/intro-to-mcp): Notes from the start of a rabbit hole — Kent C. Dodds talks, the MCP Apps spec, and a plan to let an AI assistant render real widgets instead of describing them.
- [Three years working on Open Targets](https://www.carcruz.dev/blog/three-years-open-targets): A look back at three years at the European Bioinformatics Institute — what I predicted, what I missed, and what surprised me.
- [Ten months working on an academic, open-source project. And goals for 2022](https://www.carcruz.dev/blog/2021-review-2022-goals): Close to the end of 2021, I would like to share my professional perspective of the year. And the plans and goals that come with 2022.
- [Hello world 🚀](https://www.carcruz.dev/blog/hello-world): Welcome to my open space for ideas, ready for lunch!

## Projects
- [Associations on the Fly](https://www.carcruz.dev/projects/associations-on-the-fly): Interactive tool for systematic drug target identification and prioritization using real-time evidence weighting.
- [OT Platform webapp](https://www.carcruz.dev/projects/opentargets-platform-webapp): Senior Frontend Engineer and Team Lead driving architecture and data visualization for a global drug discovery platform.
- [NX4](https://www.carcruz.dev/projects/nx4): Visualization tool for the exploration of large datasets of viral sequences.
- [VizGVar](https://www.carcruz.dev/projects/vizgvar): Bioinformatic Visualization tool to create new insights for researchers in the field of protein/DNA variations
- [Museum Collections](https://www.carcruz.dev/projects/colecciones): Interactive viewer of the Special Documents and Collections
- [INTEL Smart City Manager](https://www.carcruz.dev/projects/smart-city): Interactive data visualization dashboard for IoT (Internet of Things)
- [IoT Space Utilization](https://www.carcruz.dev/projects/spaces): Interactive data visualization dashboard for IoT (Internet of Things)